The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Architecture over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architecture
Rank 121 115 116
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 12 17 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.553% 0.751% 0.265%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.837% 1.051% 0.410%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 4
Average salary £70,000 £40,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+75.00% -30.43%
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £50,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-8.00% +21.95%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1434 1618 1219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 71.47% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1109 1364 958
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Architecture
Berkshire

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Reading Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the Reading region.

Reading Software Architecture Salary Trend

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Software Architecture Salary Histogram

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Software Architecture also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Software Architecture.

1 24 (80.00%) J2EE
2 22 (73.33%) Java
3 20 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 20 (66.67%) Spring
4 13 (43.33%) UML
5 12 (40.00%) JBoss
5 12 (40.00%) Web Services
6 11 (36.67%) SOAP
6 11 (36.67%) REST
7 10 (33.33%) XML
7 10 (33.33%) XSLT
7 10 (33.33%) JMS
8 9 (30.00%) CSS
8 9 (30.00%) JDBC
8 9 (30.00%) JSP
8 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
8 9 (30.00%) Struts
8 9 (30.00%) OOA/OOD
8 9 (30.00%) OO
8 9 (30.00%) DHTML
8 9 (30.00%) JPA
8 9 (30.00%) Open Source
8 9 (30.00%) Retail
8 9 (30.00%) Use Case
9 8 (26.67%) TOGAF
10 7 (23.33%) Finance
11 6 (20.00%) IBM
11 6 (20.00%) C
11 6 (20.00%) C#
11 6 (20.00%) C++

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Software Architecture also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (80.00%) J2EE
2 20 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 20 (66.67%) Spring
3 12 (40.00%) Web Services
4 11 (36.67%) SOAP
4 11 (36.67%) REST
5 10 (33.33%) XML
5 10 (33.33%) XSLT
5 10 (33.33%) JMS
6 9 (30.00%) CSS
6 9 (30.00%) JDBC
6 9 (30.00%) JSP
6 9 (30.00%) Struts
6 9 (30.00%) DHTML
6 9 (30.00%) JPA
7 6 (20.00%) WebSphere
8 1 (3.333%) JSON
8 1 (3.333%) HTML5
8 1 (3.333%) OAuth
8 1 (3.333%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DHCP
1 3 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (6.667%) Wireless
3 1 (3.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) DB2
2 3 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (3.333%) DataStage
General
1 9 (30.00%) Retail
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Architect
3 9 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (30.00%) J2EE Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Applications Architect
5 5 (16.67%) Software Architect
6 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Graduate Software Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Integration Architect
6 4 (13.33%) Graduate
7 2 (6.667%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Consultant
7 2 (6.667%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Software Architect
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Architect
8 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Open Source
2 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 5 (16.67%) DataPower
3 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (10.00%) Replication
5 1 (3.333%) Cryptography
5 1 (3.333%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
1 3 (10.00%) HPUX
1 3 (10.00%) Solaris
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) UML
2 9 (30.00%) OOA/OOD
2 9 (30.00%) OO
2 9 (30.00%) Use Case
3 8 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 5 (16.67%) V-Model
4 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 5 (16.67%) RUP
4 5 (16.67%) ETL
4 5 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (13.33%) EAI
5 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) Web Development
6 3 (10.00%) ITIL
7 2 (6.667%) Signal Processing
7 2 (6.667%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.333%) Digital Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Java
2 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) C
3 6 (20.00%) C#
3 6 (20.00%) C++
4 4 (13.33%) Objective-C
5 3 (10.00%) Perl
5 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) vSphere
1 3 (10.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (3.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) JBoss
2 6 (20.00%) IBM
3 5 (16.67%) Ab Initio
4 3 (10.00%) Brocade
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Symantec
4 3 (10.00%) HP
4 3 (10.00%) Citrix
4 3 (10.00%) NetApp
4 3 (10.00%) Veritas
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (3.333%) Informatica
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